When comparing Fantastical 2 vs MineTime, the Slant community recommends Fantastical 2 for most people. In the question“What are the best calendar apps for Mac OS X?”Fantastical 2 is ranked 3rd while MineTime is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Fantastical 2 is:

Fantastical makes it really easy to add events using their superb natural language parser. For instance, an entry like "breakfast at 9am at The Diner" will be handled correctly.
In addition to their best in class natural language processing, Fantastical has awesome features such as allowing users to append "/work" or "/personal" in order to add events to the specified calendar and setting up abbreviations that will add snippets of text.

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Very polished natural language text entry

Fantastical makes it really easy to add events using their superb natural language parser. For instance, an entry like "breakfast at 9am at The Diner" will be handled correctly.

In addition to their best in class natural language processing, Fantastical has awesome features such as allowing users to append "/work" or "/personal" in order to add events to the specified calendar and setting up abbreviations that will add snippets of text.

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Displays inline map of the event's location

The app displays inline map of the event's provided location. Additionally, users can choose between Apple's Maps or Google's Maps applications to use the feature with.

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Awesome syncing support

Google, iCloud, Facebook, CalDAV, Exchanged, and iPhone calendar are all supported out of the box.

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"Dayticker" is a great way to quickly see appointments

Although pretty simple, the Dayticker view, located at the top of the user interface, is simply fantastic for quickly seeing which days are booked out. It also acts as a convenient way to add new events (long press on a day).

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Allows adding reminders

Using the natural language parser, reminders can be added with the keywords "reminder", "todo", "task", or "remind me to."

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Syncs with iOS reminders

Existing reminders can be used or adde with Siri.

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Functions as a widget

With Fantastical 2, the calendar can be accessed through a widget in order to save time.

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Custom colors

Tasks can be color coordinated in order to see their categories at a glance.

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Resizeable window

The divider between the two views can be dragged for customized viewing.

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Gesture driven

Fantastical 2 lets users flick, scroll, and swipe to quickly move through different views and types of information.

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Easy to setup

Connecting to service accounts (such as Exchange) is easy and straightforward.

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Great user interface

Visually this is a nice application to look at and use.

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Google synchronization

Connects to your Google accounts via OAuth.

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Provides analytics tools

You can visually see how often you met any person in your calendar in the last months.

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